From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Jean-Christophe Helary Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: README issues Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 03:18:24 +0900 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 13.0 \(3608.40.2.2.4\)) Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_7B840CB7-6427-4EB3-9260-C8FBAF5C9340" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="59537"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 21 19:36:26 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ityO1-000FGX-R0 for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 19:36:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59508 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ityO0-00008o-Si for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:36:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53489) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ity6q-000519-F1 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ity6l-0002vm-Pc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:18:39 -0500 Original-Received: from relay10.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.230]:56579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ity6l-0002up-C0 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:18:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [172.20.10.2] (KD182251137042.au-net.ne.jp [182.251.137.42]) (Authenticated sender: jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org) by relay10.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3A501240006 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2020 18:18:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3608.40.2.2.4) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.70.178.230 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:36:14 -0500 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:20318 Archived-At: --Apple-Mail=_7B840CB7-6427-4EB3-9260-C8FBAF5C9340 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Good evening everybody, thank you for helping on the IRC channel. Here is a README patch to minimally document fixes for the issues I had. Don't hesitate to edit to follow the guile documentation standards of = any. If there is a need to have a FSF disclaimer, I'm OK with that. Let me = know how to do that (I already have one for emacs/texinfo/translation in = general). --Apple-Mail=_7B840CB7-6427-4EB3-9260-C8FBAF5C9340 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=README.diff Content-Type: application/octet-stream; x-unix-mode=0644; name="README.diff" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit diff --git a/README b/README index 68c02519e..231184411 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -This is a prerelease of version 3.0 of Guile, Project GNU's extension -language library. Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming -language, packaged as a library that can be linked into applications to -give them their own extension language. Guile supports other languages -as well, giving users of Guile-based applications a choice of languages. +This is version 3.0 of Guile, Project GNU's extension language library. +Guile is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, packaged +as a library that can be linked into applications to give them their own +extension language. Guile supports other languages as well, giving +users of Guile-based applications a choice of languages. Please send bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org. @@ -10,14 +10,28 @@ See the LICENSE file for the specific terms that apply to Guile. Note that for any copyright year range specified as YYYY-ZZZZ in this package, the range specifies every single year in that closed interval. +In the beginning ========================================================== -Additional INSTALL instructions =========================================== +Run ./autogen.sh to generate the INSTALL file if it is not present. -Generic instructions for configuring and compiling Guile can be found -in the INSTALL file. Guile specific information and configure options -can be found below, including instructions for installing SLIB. +You will need a number of up-to-date packages, including: + +autoconf (GNU Autoconf) +automake (GNU automake) +glibtoolize (GNU libtool) +sed (GNU sed) +GNU M4 +flex +gettext + +If for some reason you have error messages about a "possibly undefined +macro" when you are sure the macros are installed, make sure that the +automake/v.e.r.s.i.o.n/share/aclocal/dirlist contains the path to those +macros. + +Once ./autogen.sh exits properly you can run ./configure and then make. -Guile depends on the following external libraries. +Note that guile also depends on the following external libraries. - libgmp - libiconv - libintl @@ -25,7 +39,16 @@ Guile depends on the following external libraries. - libunistring - libgc - libffi -It will also use the libreadline library if it is available. + +If you have issues with readline (and you'll only know after make has +done a huge lot), use configure with the --with-libreadline-prefix +option. + +Additional INSTALL instructions =========================================== + +Generic instructions for configuring and compiling Guile can be found +in the INSTALL file. Guile specific information and configure options +can be found below, including instructions for installing SLIB. There is a corresponding `--with-XXX-prefix' option for each of these libraries (except for libgc and libffi which use `pkg-config', see --Apple-Mail=_7B840CB7-6427-4EB3-9260-C8FBAF5C9340 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune --Apple-Mail=_7B840CB7-6427-4EB3-9260-C8FBAF5C9340--